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A programme of recent records
Quintet in E flat major U. C. Bach)
KLAUS POHLERS (flute) ALFRED Sous (oboe)
GUNTER KEHR (violin) GEORG SCHMID (viola) REINHOLD BUHL (cello) MARTIN GAILING
(harpsichord continuo)
8.18* A fair maid (Gardner) I love my love (Hoist)
Down among the dead men
(Vaughan Williams)
ELIZABETHAN SINGERS
Conductor, Louis HALSEY
8.28* Piano Quartet in C minor
(Fauré)
KENNETH SILLITOCECIL ARONOWITZ TERENCE WEIL , LAMAR CROWSON
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URSULA BUCKEL (soprano)
TERESA STICH-RANDALL (soprano) JAKOB STAMPFLI (bass)
SAAR CHAMBER Orchestra AND CHOIR
Conducted by KARL RISTENPART
Cantata No. 51: Jauchzet Gott in alien Landen
9.26* Cantata No. 140: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme on gramophone records
A request programme of records
Symphony No. 14 in A major
(K.I 14) (Mozart)
COLOGNE SOI.OISTS' Ensemble
Conducted by HELMUT MÜLLER-BRÜHL
10.17* Cello Concerto (Delius) JACQUELINE DU PRE
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
10.43* Tone Poem: Night-ride and sunrise (Sibelius)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC
PROMENADE Orchestra
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
Record Review
Contributed by STEPHEN DODGSON EDWARD GREENFIELD HAROLD ROSENTHAL
A complete performance of the famous Savoy opera by Gilbert and Sullivan
Chorus of Gondoliers, Contadine, Men-at-Arms, Heralds and Pages
THE John MCCARTHY SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by MICHAEL MOORES
Act 1: The Piazzetta, Venice
Act 2: Pavilion in the Palace of Barataria
An interval of three months is supposed to elapse between the Acts
Date 1750
Marion Grimaldi is in ' The Match-girls ' at the Globe Theatre. London; John Fryatt broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co.
June 26: Utopia Ltd.
Polkas
E minor; E flat major (Memories of Bohemia)
E flat major; G minor; A flat major (Poetic Polkas)
VERA REPKOVA (piano) on gramophone records
ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest
Tribute to
Percy Grainger
Peter Pears (tenor)
Bryan Drake (baritone)
John Ogdon (piano)
Benjamin Britten (piano) Viola Tunnard (piano) Elizabethan Singers
Conductor, Louis Halsey
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Festival String Ensemble
From the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Part 1
Songs for chorus:
Morning song in the jungle Danny Deever
Australian up-country song The Peora hunt Soldier, soldier
3.12* Baritone and strings:
Molly on the shore The twa corbies Mock Morris
3.25* Piano solos:
Lullaby (Tribute to Foster) Shepherd's Hey Hill Song, No. 1 trans. Ronald Stevenson
Country Gardens
DONALD MITCHELL talks about the originality of Percy Grainger
Part 2
Folk songs for tenor and piano:
The pretty girl milking her cow
Six dukes went a fishin' The British waterside
4.24* Viola:
Arrival platform humlet (In a nutshell)
4.28- Piano, six hands:
Zanzibar boat song
4.32* Folk songs for chorus:
Shallow Brown
There was a pig went out to dig
Irish tune from County
Derry
Brigg Fair
The lost lady found
4.54* Piano and strings:
Handel in the Strand
A fragment for radio by ALAN GOSLING with Brenda Bruce as The Woman and Deryck Guyler as The Man
Produced by John Tydeman
An opera by Purcell
Words by Nahum Tate Realised and edited by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst
From Glyndebourne
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus of courtiers, witches, and sailors
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS Under the direction of Mycr Fredman LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Leader, Rodney Friend
Roy JESSON (harpsichord) ALEXANDER CAMERON (Cello)
Conducted by John Pritchard Produced by Franco Enriquez
Head of Music Staff, Jani Strasser
The action takes place In Carthage in classical times
by Idris Parry, Professor of Modern German Literature University of Manchester
Dog Years, a novel by Gunter Grass, the controversial writer and critic of contemporary German society, was published in England last year. It was received by most reviewers as a work of major importance. In this talk Idris Parry develops some ideas which arose from his reading of the novel.
(Second broadcast)
Directed by NORAH GREENBERG Music by Frescobaldi and Turini on a gramophone record
PATRIC DICKINSON reviews The Arpo Book of Recorded Verse, a series of readings from The English Poets from Chaucer to Yeats edited and directed by George Rylands and issued by the Argo Record Company in association with The British Council and The Oxford University Press with extracts from the records so far issued
The readers include PRUNELLA SCALES, MARGARETTA SCOTT , MAX ADRIAN. RICHARD BURTON , RICHARD JOHNSON. PETER ORR. GEORGE RYLANDS. WILLIAM SQUIRE and GARY WATSON
Produced by Joe Burroughs followed by an interlude at 7.40
L'Heure espagnole
Opera in one act by Ravel
Words by Franc-Nohain
From Glyndebourne
Cast in order of singing:
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Rodney Friend
Conducted by John Pritchard Produced by Dennis Maunder Head of Music Staff, Jani Strasser
The action takes place in Toledo in the eighteenth century
An open-end discussion with Nigel Walker
Reader in Criminology and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
Baroness Wootton of Abinger H. L. A. Hart
Professor of Jurisprudence and Fellow of University College, Oxford
The Rt. Rev. Robert C. Mortimer Bishop of Exeter
Gordon Trasler
Professor of Psychology
University of Southampton
The discussion continued
